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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Government slams multicultural heritage in flagrant attack on heritage protections

Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022, takes a sledgehammer to key parts of the Ontario Heritage Act and Ontario’s cultural heritage protection system.1

One of the more insidious proposals — not getting nearly enough attention in the slew of outrageous changes — takes aim at how we define cultural heritage itself.

It’s almost Orwellian.

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Conservation Review Board Swan Songs — Contextual criteria (part one)

As part of a farewell tribute to the Conservation Review Board — now swallowed whole by the Ontario Land Tribunal — we’re digging into some of the Review Board’s recent decisions in so-called legacy cases. (Note that most if not all of these have been authored by a single CRB, now OLT, member, Daniel Nelson.)1

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Of attributes and elements

attribute ~

something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property

element ~

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

The Conservation Review Board fades to black

The clock has run down on Ontario’s Conservation Review Board, a fixture for 46 years of our heritage protection regime. Along with the Ontario Heritage Trust, the CRB was one of our two cultural heritage-focused provincial agencies. 

We should be sorry to see it go.